BLACKBALL MEN DISGUSTED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 89, 14 April 1908, Page 7

BLACKBALL MEN DISGUSTED.

OBJECT TO ATTITUDE OF TYNESIDERB. MORE: CORItESPONDENCE. [By Teleobaph. — Special to The Post.] GREYMOUTH, This Day. I am informed that the amount paid out to the strikers on Saturday last was £180, and not £300, as stated in one report. The men say they are determined not to go back to work under tha thirty minutes' crib-time, neither for eight or ten hours' shift. The Blackballed are greatly disgusted at the attitude of the Tyneside miners in deciding to refuse further financial support. A member of the Blackball Union desired the Star to make the following announcement, viz. :—: — "The union has been in communication with tho Tyneside Union today, and the latter has entirely misunderstood the position regarding Blackball. So much is this the case 1 that another meeting of the Tyueside Union is now convened for Fridajj', when tho secretary (Mr. Newton, junior), assures me that the motion carried on Saturday will bo rescinded. Ho also desires us to state that the amount of strike pay disbuised on Saturday was £182 10s, not £300, as has been alleged. There will be no change mado in the position of affairs until the halfhour crib-time is conceded and the other concessions for which the men have held out aro granted." Mr. -Pritehard has written to the Star his version of the refusal of the Hon. J. A. Millar to sse him, describing it as "one of the greatest injustices that has over been done or possibly could be perpetrated on a working community, and which conclusively proves the iniquity of allowing even a Minister of tho Crown too much latitude." "LIVING ON THE MONEY OF OTHERS." [BT TEI-EORAPn — WtßKft ASSOCIATION.] GREYMOUTH, 13th April. Tha Wharf Labourers' Union, at a meeting on Sunday, decided to continue ihpir support to the wives and children of the Blackball strikers. Tho moetinK was addressed by Messrs. Rogere and Goldsmith, of Blackball. One of tho strikers, writing to tho Grey River Argus regarding Saturday's meeting at Blackball, states that the miners wore told before tho meeting that they wore going to got 30s a week for each man, 10s for wife, and 5s for each child. "The de3ire to have money without working was to strong, and, consequently, tho opportunity for a settlement passes, aijrl we are going lo c-on-tinuo to live on tho money of others. Tho mooting paused off nicely_, and wo all returned later and received our >voel:!y allowance, somo of us up to the tuno of £4 ss. A ballot has been tukon of the members of tho Wellington Letterpress Machinists' Union on a proposal to donate £5 to the asßistanco of tho Blackball 'Miners' Union, and that a levy of 3d a week be struck so long as tho strike ■ lasts, 'i'he pronoital was no.t aureeil to.